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      • Fiction
        July 2020

        Las batallas silenciadas

        by Nives Muñoz

        MUCHAS VIDAS SE PERDIERON. PERO TAMBI & Eacute; N MUCHAS ALMAS PERMANECERON EN SUSPENSI & Oacute; N ... Verdun, 1916. Cuando comienza la Guerra Mundial, Ir & egrave; ne Curie toma una decisi & oacute; n: estar & aacute; lo m & aacute; s cerca posible del frente. Convencido de que puede ayudar a salvar muchas vidas, pasar & aacute; su & uacute; ltimo aliento ense & ntilde; ando radiolog & iacute; aa cirujanos en hospitales de campa & ntilde; a, gracias a los dispositivos port & aacute; tiles dise & ntilde; ados por su madre, Marie Curie. Pero ella quedarse en Barleduc se convertirá en una lucha para ganarse el respeto de los soldados e incluso del resto del personal de la guardería y el infierno; Y, de repente, estalla la batalla. Alemania bombardea a Verdun, y luego todo será una carrera contra el tiempo para quitar la mayor cantidad de vidas posible de la muerte. Junto con Berthe y Shirley, Ir & egrave; ne se enfrentará al infierno durante la batalla más sangrienta y prolongada de la guerra. Y no solo lucharán por su propia supervivencia. El cielo y la tierra arden ... y están en medio de la batalla. span style = "vertical-align: heredar;"> Llenas de conciencia y feminidad y escritas en una prosa vibrante y literaria, las Batallas silenciadas nos muestran la Batalla de Verdún como nunca antes la hab & iacute; amos visto. Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz describe las vidas de todos los que participaron, porque no solo los soldados estaban todos & iacute ;, y todos podemos verlos y sentirlos: desde las trincheras, en las aldeas, en el aire, en los hospitales de campa & ntilde; a ... Porque como, En cualquier guerra, hubo vencedores y perdedores, pero todos ten & iacute; an un alma, y ​​en esta primera novela Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz abre su propio molde y lo transfiere a sus personajes para darnos un bien eterno: la esperanza. Llenas de conciencia y feminidad y escritas en una prosa vibrante y literaria, las Batallas silenciadas nos muestran la Batalla de Verdún como nunca antes la hab & iacute; amos visto. Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz describe las vidas de todos los que participaron, porque no solo los soldados estaban todos & iacute ;, y todos podemos verlos y sentirlos: desde las trincheras, en las aldeas, en el aire, en los hospitales de campa & ntilde; a ... Porque como, En cualquier guerra, hubo vencedores y perdedores, pero todos ten & iacute; an un alma, y ​​en esta primera novela Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz abre su propio molde y lo transfiere a sus personajes para darnos un bien eterno: la esperanza. Llenas de conciencia y feminidad y escritas en una prosa vibrante y literaria, las Batallas silenciadas nos muestran la Batalla de Verdún como nunca antes la hab & iacute; amos visto. Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz describe las vidas de todos los que participaron, porque no solo los soldados estaban todos & iacute ;, y todos podemos verlos y sentirlos: desde las trincheras, en las aldeas, en el aire, en los hospitales de campa & ntilde; a ... Porque como, En cualquier guerra, hubo vencedores y perdedores, pero todos ten & iacute; an un alma, y ​​en esta primera novela Nieves Mu & ntilde; oz abre su propio molde y lo transfiere a sus personajes para darnos un bien eterno: la esperanza.

      • Fiction
        March 2019

        And they say

        by Susana Sánchez Aríns

        Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression.   It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now.   Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period.   Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story.   The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced.   The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims.   It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice.   The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)

      • Fiction
        June 2022

        Uprooted

        by Julia Rendon Abrahamson

        With brilliant prose, Julia Rendón Abrahamson portrays the life of a separated mother in New York. A young Ecuadorian woman has a daughter with a Catalan banker and in the midst of today's broken society seeks a way to redeem the family's emigration dating back to World War II from Nazi-occupied Vienna.   A powerful repertoire of uncontrollable images of family memory leap into the consciousness of the day to day of a New York life marked by lovelessness, parenting, the search for a new life. Thought attempts to spin a discourse that functions as a protective blanket as a vital youthful impulse dominates her sexual, amorous and familial experiences.   This is the novel debut of an original writer who creates a dazzling text for the power of the language, which emerges as if it springs from the deep need to name the world.   In this great moment of visibility of Ecuadorian women's writing, Julia Rendón Abrahamson comes to tell us that the themes that interest the region are not exhausted in violence, or what may seem exotic abroad. She claims that what does exist in this territory is a diversity of identities and experiences that need to be read.

      • Historical fiction
        June 2021

        The Admiral's Baths

        by Dana Gynther

        The Admiral’s Baths is composed of four inter-connected stories, each told from the perspective of a different woman in her own time period.  The story opens as a contemporary historian conducts research at the baths, making discoveries which lead us back in time. History unfolds through the stories of the struggles, desires, tragedies, and triumphs of these four protagonists. Although they are separated by hundreds of years, we find that what connects them is more powerful than the passage of time. The Admiral’s Baths (102,300 words) revolves around an actual monument in Valencia, Spain, a medieval public bathhouse which was open for nearly seven centuries and is now a museum.  Some years ago, I translated several articles about the monument, covering its history, owners, architecture, and restoration. I became fascinated with the subject, and was particularly struck by its longevity. The Baths’ long history became an integral part of the story; instead of choosing one moment in the Baths’ – and Spain’s—history, I chose four: the 14th, 16th, and 19th centuries as well as the 21st.

      • Women's Fiction
        2018

        Rain words

        by Cristina M.ª Menéndez Maldonado

        Teodosia Davila Maceda is an indigenous woman who was born in the Peruvian jungle of Ucayali in the late 19th century and who died in Asturias. Her story is also the story of Saulo, an alpaquero who is convinced that words breathe and of Tamia, Teo's grandmother who connected her with the spirits of mountains, sea and land.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        I will follow in your footsteps

        by Care Santos

        By the author of Half-Life (Nadal Prize 2017), a new novel about family relationships that reflects on the ways a secret from the past can make our future come tumbling down. Reina receives an unexpected call from the mayor of a small village in the Pyrenees. Renovation work on the cemetery has forced them to open up some of the more neglected tombs, among them her father’s. The mayor begs her to do something about his remains and invites her to a solemn ceremony.There is, in addition, a delicate matter he would like to speak to her about, one far from easy to discuss: the discover of another body next to her father’s. Surprised, Reina has no idea who it could be; she knows next to nothing about the man except that he killed himself forty-five years ago, and her mother tried her entire life to conceal it. Against her will, she goes to the village to put things in order.A journey that will take Reina to a tiny town in the heart of Catalonia, but also to a faraway past to the thirtys when her father was a young man in love.

      • Fiction
        February 2020

        Two Women

        by Montse Sanjuan

        Quan la Genoveva s’assabenta que el seu fill Jordi és a la presó de Lleida, viatja a la capital amb l’esperança d’abraçarlo. Allà hi viu la Natàlia que compta els dies amb la por que es compleixi la sentència de mort a què ha estat condemnat el seu fill gran, l’Emili. La Genoveva i la Natàlia es veuran arrossegades pels durs temps de la postguerra que els ha tocat viure. Dues dones amb coratge que van haver de seguir endavant mentre la realitat que havien conegut es desplomava al seu voltant. Montse Sanjuan, autora de les novel·les policíaques de l’Anna Grimm, ens presenta en aquesta ocasió una història commovedora, plena de força i que ens descriu els límits de la condició humana.

      • Fiction
        May 2020

        La reina del exilio

        by Herminia Luque

        EDHASA’S HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD 2020 Salic law’s abolition in articulo mortis and accession to the throne of Elizabeth II unleash the conflictive 19th Century in Spain, time of fratricidal wars, conspiracies and mysteries. In 1882, Elizabeth II lived her Parisian exile in the Palace of Castile, being around noble people and luxury, but far from power. To that court will arrive an attractive gentleman, Julio Uceda, sent by Sagasta with very risky documents for the queen; and also will arrive Teresa, a young girl raised and educated in Rhe Girls of Leganés, An orphans school in Madrid, whose life and thoughts are so different to that ones behind rich people. Among Julio and Teresa will grow a love story that will have to survive to political conspiracies and the suffocating and corrupt atmosphere of a decaying monarchy. Nothing is what it seems to be, but, at the same time, everything is as hypocritical and degraded as it is shown. Herminia Luque related us a palatial intrigue; an approximation to the historical figure of Isabel II, as well as a magnificent, precise and ironic recreation of the 19th Century. And she recounts us in an unusual and clever way, thanks to femenine characters perfectly fits and an original and intelligent narrative structure, which includes a critical look at the highly contrasting contexts of society at the time.

      • Fiction
        January 2019

        Paper & Ink

        by Maria Reig

        The thrilling story of a woman who fights to rise up to the Establishment settled in Madrid before the Spanish Republic. Upstairs Downstairs. A love story full of obstacles. Madrid. Beginning of the 20th century. Elisa is raised by her wealthy bourgeoisie godmother. The feeling of belonging nowhere and a sense of rebellion mark her life. She will not only seek to run away from the limits imposed to women, through journalistic writing and passing herself off as a man, but she will also fight to take control of her life and give herself up to love. A strong and resolute female character, who will fight for her freedom, in a journalistic world ruled by men, in a convulsive period for Spain. A sublime portrait of Madrid, in a twenties setting: the perfect start of the 20th century environment.

      • Fiction
        May 2020

        The Avenue of Illusions

        by Xavi Barroso

        From a servant in an upper-class home to a Vaudeville star. A woman ahead of her time. A stirring and turbulent story of an era. Francisca and María arrive in Barcelona, capital of Vaudeville and anarchism, to work as servants. Francisca has an indomitable character. She dreams of being an artist with a freer life than society has destined her for. She will soon meet Joan, a young anarchist who will steal her heart and reveal to her the magic of Paralelo, the theater-lined avenue. Francisca’s loyalties will be tested in a revolutionary Barcelona with a flourishing theater scene. Strong of character, committed to women’s suffrage and workers’ rights, she will also see the darker side of the city, the humiliation, solitude, betrayal, and unrequited love, but none of this will keep her from success and fame.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        Postcards from the East

        by Reyes Monforte

        A paean to liberty, identity, and hope in the middle of one of the greatest human catastrophes of our history. Madrid, 1980. A woman receives a box of postcards and photos of people she doesn’t know. “These are the postcards your mother wrote when she was in Auschwitz.” In these letters, she will discover the secret that her mother, Elle, kept for thirty-five years: that she was a prisoner of the Nazis and kept texts and photographs from the women in the concentration camp. She wanted to write their stories. One of them is Maria Mandel, a real person, the cruelest and most bloodthirsty SS woman, who lived during the Third Reich, and who would take Elle on as her reluctant protégée. Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Irma Grese, Ana Frank, Alma Rosé, and Gisella Peri also make their appearance.

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        Hannah

        by Christian Galvez

        Florence under the Nazis. Two timelines. A palindrome that joins two generations. An unknown hero. A story based on real events Florence, 1944. German consul Gerhard Wolf, the Guardian of Ponte Vecchio, saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during the Nazi occupation, kept the Germans from stealing the artworks in the Uffizi gallery, and saved Ponte Vecchio from being destroyed by mines. Florence, 2019. Hannah returns to Spain from Florence because her grandmother, Hannah, is dying. With her will go one of her deepest secrets: how she lived through the Nazi occupation of Florence in 1944. Hanna will find a Wehrpass, a Nazi passport belonging to a soldier who died in combat in 1943, and next to her grandmother’s name, she sees the text: “Hannah, girl number 37. G. Wolf.” Why did her Jewish grandmother’s name appear in a Nazi passport?

      • Fiction

        Primera Memoria /The Island

        by Ana María Matute

        “This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, ofbloodsuckers and frauds.” Ana María Matute’s 1959 novel is a powerful and unsettling coming-of age novel, set on Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War. It’s a stifling story of rebellious adolescence, narrated by Matia, as she struggles against her domineering grandmother, schemes with her mercurial cousin Borja and begins to fall in love with the strange boy Manuel. Steeped in myth, fairy tale and biblical allusion, the novel depicts Mallorca as an enchanted but wicked island, a lost Eden and Never Never Land combined, where the sun burns through stained glass windows and the windtears itself on the agaves. Ostensibly concerned with Matia’s anxieties aboutentering the adult world, this internal confl ict is set against the much wider,deeper, and more frightening confl ict of the civil war as it plays out almostsecretly on the island, set in turn against the backdrop of the Inquisition’s massburning of Jews in previous centuries. These two confl icts shimmer at theedges of Matia’s highly subjective account of her life on the island, where life isdrawn along painful and divisive lines.

      • Fiction
        August 2020

        La Buena Suerte

        by Rosa Montero

        A moving story of love and atonement. Wakefield meets The Accidental Tourist in the depths of rural Spain.Text:Looking out of the window of a train during a brief stop at the station of a god-forsaken town in the middle of nowhere, run-down and absolutely ugly, a passenger notices a sign advertising a flat for sale. Pablo, 54, a prestigious architect from Madrid who is traveling to give a conference, decides that this hellhole is a good place to abandon himself to the pain that is eating him away. Without a second thought, Pablo leaves the train – and his previous life – and pays for the apartment in cash, a pigsty he settles into with just the basics, without informing his friends or his employees and with the sole purpose of disappearing.His plans do not include meeting a woman as alien to his world as Raluca, a supermarket cashier and painter who loves kitsch artwork, and who is indestructible, despite how badly she has been treated by life. In her, Pablo will find the strength to start from scratch – as a supermarket shelf filler – and learn to face up to a family past cut short by evil in its purest expression.

      • Women's Fiction
        November 2019

        Under the Fig Tree

        by María Bautista

        Clara returns from Berlin after ten years with a suitcase filled with pain and guilt. It’s almost impossible for her to feel like she is back home: her mother is not there anymore and her friends are trying to survive the economic crisis and adult life. Without prospects and without a job, she tries to face her past and to recover the hope of a future by moving to a small village in Salamanca to take care of Inés, her 93 years old grandmother. In a house full of the old woman ghosts, always ill-tempered and elusive, Clara will discover a story that, like her own, is marked by the deaths of others and by secrets that, sooner or later, will come out to light. With a Spanish depopulated rural village as a background, the novel tells the encounter between two generations of women and how they overcome their differences through sorority and solidarity.

      • Women's Fiction
        2012

        Days of love and harvest

        by María Consuelo Altable (Ángela Blenda)

        A terrorist attack shocks Madrid. An injured woman in the attack is physically identical to Ana, director of the Madrid Scientific Police. In another part of the city, María, a librarian, is deeply shocked by the event. At the end of the day, Alejandra drives home and the glare of another car causes her to crash into a lamppost. A story of women friendship who support each other to overcome the challenges and difficulties they face every day.

      • Fiction
        September 2019

        Heart Land

        by Luz Gabás

        A brilliant novel that brings together a beautiful story of autumn love, a crime investigation, the defense of the earth, and the countryside as a universal heritage. Alira, heiress of the mansion and lands her family has held onto for generations, must choose between staying true to her origins or adapting to the new times. When she thinks she found an answer to her questions, a mysterious disappearance upsets the apparent calm at her home—the only inhabited house in a small abandoned village. A twist of fate makes her face her past and question everything that had been solid for her. From that moment on, she will start to feel something she never knew she was ready for: love!

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        I'm not asking for much

        by Megan Maxwell

        Carol works as a showgirl, but her dream is to be a stewardess, and the opportunity presents itself in the form of the company High Drogo. Daryl is the captain and he travels all over the world as a pilot for the same company. The two of them meet through Lola, who is Daryl’s sister and Carol’s friend. They are attracted to each other, and both are open to sex with no strings attaches, but they try not to get too close, because this could cause problems for Lola. And yet, everything will change when the heart wins out over logic and work lands them on the same flights and in the same cities. Unable to resist the attraction they feel for each other, they decide to take advantage of the moment, to live, to enjoy it.

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        A whole life to remember

        by Núria Pradas

        A fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of the iconic Disney Studios, A Whole Life To Remember is a fast-paced and utterly absorbing story which captures a beloved bygone era with acuity, wisdom, and heart. A Whole Life to Remember is the story of Sophie Simmons, a talented young girl from New York, who travels to Los Angeles in the 1930s to become a cartoonist. The story follows Sophie in her way to achieve her dream in a world of men at the golden beginnings of the Disney Studios. Love, friendship, tragedy and glamour are all the ingredients of this fascinating novel that will transport you to the backstage of the big first Disney cartoon productions, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Dumbo accompanied by a heroine who will stay with you for a long time.

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